On the Mark: A Month of Mea Culpas

From J.P. Morgan's Jamie Dimon to Research in Motion's Jim Balsillie, Mean Street host Evan Newmark details a month of mea culpas in his "On the Mark" segment.

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I ... well ... then all the convenience of late ... for our politicians down a Washington ... team pointing the finger ... at greedy businessman and greedy Wall Street ... all those big profits to two trillion dollars sitting on corporate balance sheets ... but still we are the jobs where the jobs those being ... dead greedy CEOs ... of the truth in ... American CEOs can teach Washington a thing or two ... especially as of late ... especially when it comes to how to apologize to people ... for your past mistakes ... in fact ... if we look of the past couple couple of months there's been an absolute apology fast whole series of Mijuk opens from are being CEO was ... last week alone we and win the CL apologize invite you to for a whole series of BlackBerry outages in and ... letting his customers well basically apologizing for letting his customers down ... when Pimco's Bill Gross apologize for his lousy ... up on performance Hamoui and Jamie diming on his earnings call apologizing for mis timing the four billion dollars JPMorgan buyback ... the CEOs are giving customers and shareholders what they want ... and what is that they want they want honesty you would think it's not that hard to deliver that intentionally and for many years CEOs had trouble apologizing ... not recently ... distinctive Reed Hastings the Netflix ... he apologized that reversed course twenty shareholders and customers said that they were very unhappy with his behavior ... this ... is probably why we are not hearing from any apologies from our folks in Washington ... politics is zero sum game in which it has one son is a winner than somebody else has to lose ... I would urge our politicians to think more like CEOs ... would we think less of President Obama for example where you'd be more forthright with his mistakes ... for say apologizing over the Solyndra mass ... I wouldn't think less of him but then again I'm a businessman and not a politician ... so ... I we really know ... coming up before Simon Constable will see you tomorrow on means tree ...